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Is ChatGPT making us less critical, more dependent on AI, and less skilled?

Generative AI goes beyond retrieving data-it creates, analyses, and summarises, marking a major shift as it may be the first tech capable of replacing human thought and creativity

DeepSeek, Trump's plan steer agenda at China's most important AI summit

This week, US President Donald Trump unveiled his so-called AI Action Plan - a sort of call to arms to ensure the country keeps its lead in the post-ChatGPT epoch

Trump's order to block 'woke' AI spurs tech giants to censor their chatbots

Tech companies looking to sell their artificial intelligence technology to the federal government must now contend with a new regulatory hurdle: proving their chatbots aren't woke. President Donald Trump's sweeping new plan to counter China in achieving global dominance in AI promises to cut regulations and cement American values into the AI tools increasingly used at work and home. But one of Trump's three AI executive orders signed Wednesday the one preventing woke AI in the federal government marks the first time the U.S. government has explicitly tried to shape the ideological behavior of AI. Several leading providers of the AI language models targeted by the order products like Google's Gemini and Microsoft's Copilot have so far been silent on Trump's anti-woke directive, which still faces a study period before it gets into official procurement rules. While the tech industry has largely welcomed Trump's broader AI plans, the anti-woke order forces the industry to leap into

The Board's AI agenda: How prepared are you to guide the transformation?

When a business that relies heavily on artistic talent cites AI as a disruptive force, it signals more than just an industry-specific concern

Edge data centre capacity in India likely to triple by 2027, says Icra

India's edge data centre capacity will increase threefold by 2027, growing to 200-210 MW from 60-70 MW in 2024, driven by the proliferation of emerging technologies, according to Icra

AI platform iTuring raises $5 million Series A for financial services push

iTuring.ai, an AI platform targeting the BFSI sector, raises $5 million in Series A funding led by Dallas Venture Capital and Mela Ventures to expand product development

Web traffic collapses as AI steps in: Google is changing how we click

Pew study finds AI summaries shut down curiosity and reduce link clicks, raising alarms among publishers, educators, and creators over falling traffic and shrinking visibility

itel launches Super Guru 4G Max feature phone with built-in AI assistant

itel Super Guru 4G Max feature phone's highlight is its built-in AI assistant that can understand and respond to users voice commands in natural language and perform tasks on command

Trump signs executive order banning 'woke AI' in federal government use

Citing threats to trust and accuracy, Trump orders agencies to use only AI models that are 'truthful, ideologically neutral', and free from 'DEI-driven distortions'

AI demo firm Olto raises $5.1 mn from Nexus, The General Partnership

San Francisco-based AI startup Olto secured $5.1 mn in a pre-seed round co-led by Nexus Venture Partners and The General Partnership to automate and personalise B2B demos

China leads the AI race as US struggles on energy, warns AI firm Anthropic

Anthropic, a Silicon Valley artificial intelligence startup, has urged Washington to cut down 'red tape' surrounding the power infrastructure development to stay competitive with China

Gaming firm MPL bets on AI to boost development cycles, write code faster

When it comes to changing the workflows or pushing minor features, the gaming company is encouraging its developers to outsource repetitive tasks to an AI agent or code editors

Mukul Agrawal portfolio stock zooms 20%, nears record high. Do you own?

Shares of InfoBeans Technologies hit a 52-week high of ₹540.90, and were locked at the 20% upper circuit on the BSE in Wednesday's intra-day trade after the company reported strong earnings for Q1FY26

Sam Altman warns of looming AI voice fraud crisis in financial sector

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned the financial industry of a significant impending fraud crisis because of the ability of artificial intelligence tools to impersonate a person's voice to bypass security checks and move money. Altman spoke at a Federal Reserve conference Tuesday in Washington. A thing that terrifies me is apparently there are still some financial institutions that will accept the voiceprint as authentication, Altman said. That is a crazy thing to still be doing. AI has fully defeated that. Voiceprinting as an identification for wealthy bank clients grew popular more than a decade ago, with customers typically asked to utter a challenge phrase into the phone to access their accounts. But now AI voice clones, and eventually video clones, can impersonate people in a way that Altman said is increasingly indistinguishable from reality and will require new methods for verification. That might be something we can think about partnering on, said Fed Vice Chair for Supervision

White House to launch plan to boost US AI globally, limit foreign curbs

The plan will 'focus on empowering American workers through AI-enabled job creation and industry breakthroughs'

Google seeks licensing talks with news organisations, following AI rivals

The company plans to launch a pilot project initially with about 20 national news outlets, according to one of the people

India's top IT firms have more than 250,000 highly skilled AI employees

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has about 114,000 people with higher order AI skills, which the company believes will allow it to create a 'skills pyramid'

Elon Musk's xAI seeks $12 billion more to expand AI infrastructure

Elon Musk's xAI is seeking $12 billion more to lease Nvidia chips for a second AI data centre, Colossus 2, as it races to compete with OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft in the AI arms race

Tata Communications partners with AWS for AI-ready network rollout in India

Tata Communications on Tuesday said it has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deploy an advanced, AI-ready long-distance network across India. The project, which is likely to involve a capital investment of about Rs 430 crore from Tata Communications, is expected to be completed by the end of FY26, according to a regulatory filing. The collaboration will establish a new high-capacity, long-distance network to connect three AWS infrastructure locations to boost generative AI adoption and cloud innovation in India, it said. "The collaboration marks one of India's largest ever network deployments by Tata Communications in terms of size, scale and bandwidth. AWS has two data centre regions in India, located in Mumbai and Hyderabad, and AWS Direct Connect and AWS Edge Network infrastructure in Chennai. "The network will connect AWS infrastructure in Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Chennai through a comprehensive, national long-haul network, creating a powerful infrastructure backbone fo

Scientists develop AI system that can predict liver cancer recurrence

AI tool predicts liver cancer relapse with 82% accuracy, tackling a disease causing third-highest cancer-related deaths globally